All these Q personalities appearing at one event wasn’t an accident. The Tulsa conference would mark QAnon’s new guise as a mainstream conservative movement opposed to pandemic restrictions. I knew I had to see it for myself. But security was tight. In the lead-up to the conference, organizers had talked a lot about the need to look out for attacks from left-wing antifascist “Antifa” activists—a threat that seemed remote in an exurb a half-hour drive from Tulsa, and a thousand miles away from anything that might be called an Antifa hotbed. Organizers had also announced that they would keep all
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